IBM Rising on Quantum Computer Unveil; Drexel Likes the 'Positioning'

By Tiernan Ray Shares of International Business Machines (IBM) are up 20 cents at $144.33, in a rather down market, following a bit of news from the company about quantum computing. IBM said its “IBM Quantum Experience” computer is “for the first time ever … making quantum computing available to members of the public.” The facility, which IBM says runs on cloud computing technology, is located at the company’s T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York, and people, including researchers and scientists, says IBM, can access it via its cloud-enabled Web interface from desktop and mobile devices. The facility “will allow users to run algorithms and experiments on IBM’s quantum processor, work with the individual quantum bits (qubits), and explore tutorials and simulations around what might be possible with quantum…